Shoe-exhibiting device.



V. W. SMITH. SHOE EXHIBHING DEVICE. APPLICATION man 1AN.18.1915.

Patented Dec. 26, 1916.

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T@ @Tlklhl PATENT @FFllCllo VIMAL W. SMITH, or HAVEEHILL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNCR To sIMPLEx SAMPLE SYSTEM INC., E HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION.

SHOE-EXHIBITIN G DEVICE.

Application filed January 18, 1915.

of Massachusetts, have invented an Inl-- provernent in Shoe-Exhibiting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

In the manufacture of shoes, it is usually necessary for manufacturers to make up a large number of sample shoes, to illustrate different styles, methods of construction, materials to be employed, etc. These sample shoes are much more expensive to make than the ordinary run of shoes, particularly in that double labor prices are'usually paid for making them, and, it usually happens, that they must be sold at a price much less than that secured for new shoes made in lots for the jobber vor retailer, that is, at a very substantial loss. rl`hese samples ymust also be packed in boxes so that a salesman, carrying a considerable number of sample Shoes, is usually obliged to carry several trunks, on which he has to pay excess baggage.

The object of my invention` is to provide a form of shoe-exhibiting device, which will illustrate the style, materials, nish, method of construction, or other physical characteristics of a shoe, which may bemade at Small expense, as compared with the usual cost of making sample shoes, and which will occupy comparatively little space. l accomplish these objects, in a general way, by cutting out fiat pieces in Shapes which are either vertical or horizontal projections of the different parts of a shoe, to be illustrated, from material such as that of which the shoe is to be made, securing those parts together in the manner or by the means by which they are to be attached in the making of the actual shoe, so that the parts thus attached, will lie flat, and then mounting these attached parts on a cardboard or other suitable Hat support.

For a more complete understanding of my invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which;-

Figures l and 2 are plan views illustrating different embodiments of my invention. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view illustrating another embodiment of the invention, and, Fig. 5 is a sectional view, on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

1n producing a device embodying my invention, patterns of the parts of a shoe, of

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 19116..

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the design which is to be illustrated, are prepared, the outlines of which correspond to the projections, upon a flat surface, of the different parts of such shoe when in ordinary form, or, in otherwords, side elevations, or plan views of the normally shaped parts of a complete shoe are reproduced in outline, and patterns are made corresponding to such outline. Material substantially identical to the kind of material to be employed for a certain part is then out out by the pattern corresponding to such part, and then the various parts are secured together, or fitted, identically the same as if they were to be niade into an ordinary shoe. For example, in forming the `device of Fig. 1, a vamp section a is formed, which is shaped like the side elevation of the vamp of a shoe in linished form, resembling a side-half of a small vamp piece. The other upper portions b and c are likewise formed, and also a heel-shaped piece, as d, and an eyelet strip e, all being made from the materials to be used for these particular parts, except possibly the heel, in which case, if the heel is to be covered, as shown, the covering material is employed. These parts are assembled and connected by sewing in the ordinary manner, forming a Hat piece which is then mounted on a piece of cardboard t, in any suitable way.

The edges of the sole f and top lift g may be illustrated by attaching a narrow strip vof leather on the card, in the usual position of such parts. lf the shoe is a lace shoe, the eyelets will be inserted in their usual positions in the piece e, before the parts are `mounted and a lacing z' is preferably passed through the card or mount it and through the eyelets, so that the whole device thus produced, especially when held some feet away from an observer, has the appearance of a shoe.

The device of Fig. 2 is similar to that of Fig. 1, diEering merely in that it illustrates a plan of a shoe forepart, illustrating the complete vamp, as a', sole edge-finish, shape of the toe, etc., the parts, when assembled, being mounted on a card scribed.

In Figs. 4 and 5 a fragmentary portion of a device, designed to illustrate a button shoe, is shown. ln this instance, the button holes are worked in the piece c', and the buttons 7" are Set in the button holes, and attached in 110 71,', as before de- I sections representing the profile of a shoe 15 and disposed on the surface of the mount, one of said sections having the lacing eye'- lets adjacent the edge thereof and a lacing passing through the eyelets and the portions of the mount therebeneath and about the adjacent edge of the section.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

VINAL W. SMITH.

Witnesses:

L. H.HARR1MAN, H. B. DAVIS. 

